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(she/her) is a professor at the Department of Conservation and researcher at the Institute Materiality in Art and Culture of the Bern Academy of the Arts. She is Principle Investigator of the research project ArchaeoBark (2024-2027) and of the Agora project The Schnidejoch bowcase: the Stone Age was Plant Age (2024-2025), bothfunded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She has led research projects on the conservation of birch bark, on the effect on air pollution in libraries and archives and on microclimate for canvas paintings. She teaches science-related subjects at the BA in Conservation of the Bern Academy of the Arts. Previously she worked as conservation scientist at the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage and at ScreenSound Australia. She holds a master degree in Physics from the University of Milano, a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Basel and a post-doc from the Institute for the Conservation of Monuments of the ETH Zürich.
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(she/her) is a senior object conservator at the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern, specialising in the conservation of perishable organic archaeological finds from alpine ice fields, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Bern University of the Arts. Her research focuses on understanding the structure, water behaviour and degradation of tree barks in order to adapt treatment methods to the needs of the material, and on analysing the technology of objects in order to uncover their production and use history. Her strength lies in the combination of natural and social sciences. She holds a Diploma in Restoration of Archaeological Objects from the University of Applied Sciences Berlin (2007), an MA in Conservation-Restoration from the University of the Arts Bern (2013) and an MA in Research on the Arts from the University of Bern (2015). She completed her PhD in Archaeology (2023) with an interdisciplinary thesis on the technology, contextualisation and conservation of the Neolithic birch cork bow case from Schnidejoch.
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(he/him) PhD 1994 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, is head of the division of large scale projects with the Archaeological Heritage Office of Saxony. His main research areas are Early Neolithic and Bronze Age landscape archaeology as well as methodical aspects of heritage management. On the large scale excavations under his responsibility, most of the early neolithic wells known today in Saxony were found. For several years, these features and their wider settlement context were a special focal point. In cooperation with the University of Leipzig he led the research project of the Early Neolithic Settlement in Eythra, Leipzig distr., from 2009-2016, which was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
He gave content advice to many archaeological exhibition projects including the permanent exhibition of the Archaeological State Museum Chemnitz (smac). He participated in many interdisciplinary projects in cooperation with national and international research institutes and universities.
(he/him) is ordinary professor for Pre- and Protohistory at Leipzig University. He studied Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Geology, Physical Anthropology and Ethnology at Tübingen, Zürich (CH) and Münster, from were he got his PhD. Further stations of his career were Cambridge (UK – postdoc), Münster (state arch. service), Tübingen (lecturer, associate professor) and Berlin (visiting professor). Ulrich Veit is specialized in Later European Prehistory with a focus on in burial -, settlement- and social archaeology. Additional fields of interest are the history of archaeology, theoretical archaeology as well as material culture and museum studies.
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(she/her) is a researcher at Leipzig University. In the project ‘Archaeobark: Identification, Conservation and Significance of Prehistoric Bark Vessels, she is working on her PhD on bark containers from prehistoric wells in Saxony and their contextualization.
In 2021 to 2024, she taught at the Chair of Prehistory and Early History at Leipzig University in the B. A. programme ‘Archaeology and History of Ancient Europe’ and was responsible for advising students.
Kathrin Krüger studied Prehistoric Archaeology in Marburg and Leipzig. In her Master's thesis, she analysed production speeds for prehistoric textiles. Her research interests focus on organic finds.
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(she/her) is conservation scientist. Her research focus is the conservation of archaeological organic objects made from plant materials and animal resources. This includes material analyses, manufacturing techniques, decay processes and the evaluation of conservation methods. She is currently working at Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) in Mainz, Germany where she heads the conservation science research group. Ingrid is a trained object conservator and holds a PhD from the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart (abk-), Germany, where she also taught conservation courses. She has worked as an archaeological conservator in museums, heritage offices and as a freelancer. She has been involved in research projects such as THEFBO and was head of the CuTAWAY project (2019-24). She is currently assistant coordinator of the ICOM-CC Group on Wet Organic Archaeological Materials (WOAM)
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(he/him) graduated in Forestry from the University of Freiburg (Germany) and studied Forest Engineering as an exchange student at the Universidad Austral de Chile (Valdivia, Chile). Since 2007 Sebastian has been working in the Dendrochronology Laboratory of the State Office for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Stuttgart. He analyses archaeological wood and wooden objects from all over Baden-Württemberg, focusing on dendrochronological dating and report writing. In the DFG co-funded project Degersee/Schleinsee he investigated and interpreted lake dwellings of Neolithic settlements in small lakes. Since 2018, his professional profile has expanded to include the botanical analysis of Neolithic textiles. In the projects THEFBO (funded by the BMBF) and Sipplingen (Lake Constance) he analyses remains from pile dwelling sites with different light and electron microscopic applications. Now, in the Archaeobark project, Sebastian will be studying the anatomy of plant remains from archaeological finds from different sites.
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(she/her) is senior archaeologist at the State office for Heritage Management and Archaeology in Baden-Württemberg (Landesamt für Denkmalpflege/LAD), Esslingen, Germany. She has been intensively involved in textile archaeology for over 30 years. Johanna wrote her Master covering the theme Neolithic textiles in Middle-Europe. For her PhD she examined the early iron age textiles found at the grave mound in Eberdingen-Hochdorf/Germany. In LAD Johanna is responsible for both new and old finds stemming from current excavations. This includes developing and supporting new research methods especially in the area of strongly decomposed organic material, and developing focus points for further research. Likewise, Johanna is responsible for the coordination of various research projects like THEFBO (2018-2021 www.thefo.de), which has been researching technical textiles, including sewn bark containers from prehistoric wetland settlements. One of Johanna’s main objectives is a broader integration of textile research and results into publications and exhibitions.
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